When Mean Girls Become Murderers

Hey guys welcome back to my channel so today we are going to talk about a case that you guys have been requesting a lot on my case form and this case is absolutely crazy. I understand why so many people wanted me to talk about him. and there's a lot to go over here, so let's go ahead and jump right in, so this is skyler annette niece, she was born on february 10, 1996. these are her parents mary and dave niece mary worked as an administrative assistant in a cardiac lab and Dave was a product assembler at Walmart and Skyler was a very loved girl, you can tell by the way her parents talk about her, that she was the light of their lives and that she was also their only daughter, so she

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I saw her, yes, I can say it was the best time of my life, yes, it was instant love and while she was growing up, Mary and Dave said that Skyler was a very easy girl, that she was very sweet and genuine, that she had a huge heart . she loved playing outside she loved animals she brought home stray dogs all the time this was a stray dog ​​that's right I'm talking about you so

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Skyler was in second grade she started meeting new friends and one of her new friends Sheila called Eddie and they became very close and she went to another school, they met at a community center, but they were very close and

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they went out they always had a lot of fun when Mary and Dave met Sheila, they thought she was a super nice girl , she had some problems at home, her parents divorced when she was four and her father was also disabled so he couldn't work, so it was quite stressful for her and she was also an only child, just like Skylar, so that two of them really bonded over that and mary and dave really wanted to be as cozy as possible with Sheila, they invited her over all the time for dinners, play dates, all that stuff, sleepovers, she was so used to coming to their house I just walked in and they were agreeing that Skyler's family lived in an apartment in Star City West Virginia which is a small town in Magnolia County and Skyler really enjoyed playing with Sheila.

She was definitely a fun person to hang out with. She was a little. of a wild child and I think that was something interesting for Skyler and like I said the

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went to different schools but when they got to high school Sheila ended up transferring to university high school which is where Skyler went and they were very excited and she really liked high school, she did very well in school, in fact the teachers really liked her and she had high hopes of one day becoming a lawyer. Yes, she wanted to be a criminal lawyer and constantly thought that I would be a good lawyer mother. and of course Dave and I worked, she would say dad, whatever and we would say the way you argue, oh you would make a great lawyer, she was a very responsible girl, she also had a job in high school and she worked at Wendy's . where two of her other friends also worked and she really liked that job, so at school Sheila was definitely known as a confident girl and I guess you could say popular, at that point Sheila's parents turned to her.

She was getting married and she really liked her stepfather, so she felt She was more comfortable than ever in her home life and now Skyler and Sheila were spending a lot more time together, so they were getting very close and were delighted to be at the same school and Finally, Skyler and Sheila added a third person to their group. During their freshman year they met Rachel. Rachel's parents were divorced. She had an older half-brother who she did not grow up with. school and was quite protected by a wealthy religious family and people who knew her said that she really seemed to like the attention, she loved being in school plays and she didn't just appear in school plays, she was usually the star of school works. and the three of them were very very close and spent all their free time together, if they weren't physically together they would text each other and they were also very into Twitter so they constantly talked to each other a lot. people said that they acted more like sisters than friends, in reality they were so close to a lot of people that it seemed like nothing could break their friendship and mary and dave were very happy that skyler, you know, had such close friends, but ultimately, Over time, I started to have some jealousy between groups.

I know many of you have probably experienced this. I know I definitely did with the two

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I was friends with in high school. I'm still friends with them now as the three of us were very close, but. sometimes two of us would be closer and one person would feel left out, sometimes two of us would go out and the other person would be alone or I would be left alone, you know, I think a lot of people have experienced this and this was really starting to happen with Rachel and Sheila, they seemed to be a lot closer and Skylar seemed to be left out and often felt alone and by the summer of 2012, Sheila and Rachel were very close and Skyler definitely felt a little left out and the 4th of July. 2012 Skyler was home alone because Rachel and Sheila had made plans and they didn't invite her and obviously this was very upsetting, so that day she was, you know, depressed, feeling sad, lonely, left out and her mother felt very bad about she.

She suggested that she maybe read a book or do some homework. Skyler was a very, very smart student. She was an honors student. She loved to read. She really liked reading a lot of the classics. Then her mom thought, "You know, this is something she would do." What she wanted to do to pass the time, but even that didn't seem like fun to Skyler that day, she just felt very depressed and that day she tweeted that she was sick of being at home, thanks to her friends they also love hanging out with you, so that's how it was.

It's clear that Skyler was hurt that Sheila and Rachel made plans without her, so the next night, July 5, 2012, Skyler worked her shift at Wendy's until about 10 p.m. and when she got home, her parents were in the living room watching television and having a very informal night. she came in, took a look at what they were seeing, they stayed for a second and then she kissed them both goodnight and climbed into bed, arranged her room around her mom, gave her a kiss, gave her a hug and said. I love you mom, she turned to me and said I love you dad and went to the bedroom, however, Skyler actually had other plans and decided that she was going to sneak out that night, so around 12:30 a. . m. on Friday, July 6, Skyler.

She escaped from her house through her bedroom window. Skyler used a small bench on the floor under the window to help her get out and grabbed a bunch of things that you know she regularly carried with her: her purse, her cell phone, her wallet, and there's actually surveillance. video you can see of her leaving the apartment complex at 12:31 am. You can see in the clip that she walks through the parking lot across the street to where a car is waiting for her and then she gets in the back seat and they now sneak away. It was something Skyler had been doing more lately.

She definitely started to rebel a little more. Three of them loved to cross the Pennsylvania border to go to Star City to smoke marijuana. They had just discovered that and had also gotten really into drinking. She often stayed out after curfew, sometimes she got into trouble, and a lot of what they were worried about was what was posted on the Internet, like I said, all three girls were very, very active on Twitter. Rachel Skyler was very interested in Twitter, but honestly, not as much as Sheila, she tweeted probably twice as much as both of them combined, literally recording her every thought and feeling.

Here are just a few examples of her tweets. I wish it were acceptable to be naked all the time. It's okay if you hate me. While I hate you, first stepdad, stop walking around the house shirtless, it's disgusting, not to mention your boobs are bigger than mine. There's a reason why being sober and so bored sounds almost exactly the same when you're talking about how crazy you are. Love with Justin Bieber I Probably Want to Stab You, so the three girls were definitely rebelling and Skyler's other friends outside of these two started to notice and didn't like Sheila, for this reason they thought she was too wild, she always seemed to it was. pushing the boundaries too much Skyler's other friends thought Sheila was a terrible influence on her, so her parents are noticing that Rachel is a bad influence, her friends are noticing that Sheila is a bad influence, and Scottie's friends said that They even felt like Skylar was being changed by I told them both that her personality was being altered and when her other friends tried to talk to her about it, she just dismissed it, she thought they were totally out of line and it wasn't true, plus , she and Sheila had been friends since Skyler was a little girl, you know she looked up to her almost like a sister and Rachel was also very close to Sheila and she really liked that she gravitated towards her energy because Rachel was definitely more rebellious and she was also a popular girl. she had a lot of other friends, but she really liked Sheila and Rachel's other friends started to feel exactly the same as Skyler's other friends, that Sheila was a bad influence on Rachel, they tried to talk to her, but Rachel didn't care, she thought that.

Sheila was a great person and nothing was going to stop her from being friends with her and that year at school there were some rumors spreading that Rachel and Sheila were actually starting to have a relationship and that the two of them were hanging out a lot. People thought that was why Rachel was so defensive towards Sheila, she didn't want anyone to ever talk bad about her, but no one knew if this was really true because Sheila and Rachel also had boyfriends, but the two of them seemed very, very close and eventually. like I said, they just started pushing Skyler away, they made plans without her all the time, they dressed like each other to make her jealous, they deliberately planned their outfits to make her feel left out and throughout the entire second year, Skyler and Sheila were fighting.

Much more than usual and it seemed like Rachel seemed to be what was really separating them and Skyler, of course, vented her frustrations on Twitter. She said I tell the whole school everything I have about everyone, which is a shame. My friends are having lives without me you are two faced and obviously stupid if you thought I wouldn't find out I just know I know I hope you don't expect me to say goodbye anymore I'm sorry if you were enjoying looking at my cat I took a little break and she left realized and you know, you just don't tell cats what to do like I said, so Bernie decided he was going to take his place, so he waves and jumps back to the morning of July 6th.

Skyler snuck in. That morning, Mary and Dave left at 12:30 a.m., Mary and Dave got ready for work as usual and assumed Skyler was in her room. She said she was going to bed early the night before. Dave had planned to go do his shift at Walmart. He came back and gave Skyler his car so she could take him to her shift at Wendy's, so he came home at noon as planned and went to Skyler's room, but when he got to her door he realized that the door was closed, which was unusual, sometimes Skyler closed her door. for privacy, but it wasn't something she did very often and not usually in the middle of the day, but Dave didn't think much of it so he started knocking on the door, you know, calling her, Skyler, are you there and she's not?

She responded and when she heard nothing, she instantly had a wave of fear. You know, it's one thing if you can tell your kids that they're ignoring you or excluding you, you can hear little sounds, a sigh, something, but he heard absolutely nothing. He walked out of the house to the window so he could look in and when he got there he saw the little bench on the floor from when Skyler had run away and he saw that the window was open, so of course any parent is going to put this together. immediate. Skyler clearly ran away, but of course, since it's daylight now, Dave immediately starts freaking out because he figures something could have happened to her if she ran away and still hasn't returned, especially since it's her turn at her house.

Wendy was. comes and she is a very responsible girl, she will show up for her shift, so of course the first thing she thinks to do is call her friends and see if they know where she is, so she calls Sheila and she told her that she had spoken with Skyler around midnight the night before, but he hadn't heard from her since she also said she had no idea where she was and didn't even have a clue where she might be, so Dave contacted Mary and Mary, of course , I was worried, but she also told her to stay calm, let's see if we can contact her.

Find out this. She'll probably show up for her shift at Wendy's. Not only is she going to miss work. She said we're not going to worry. call them around ten after four, give them time to check everything and see if she's there, but of course Mary was still worried and came home and when she got home they got a call from Wendy's saying that Skyler wasn't there. HEhad shown up for work. and at this point they said panic really set in because they knew she wouldn't just skip work like this, she was too responsible, this is out of character for her and the fact that she had run away the night before was It's very worrying, so of course they contacted the police immediately.

They contacted Star City police to report Skyler missing. I have a 16 year old daughter, she apparently snuck out of her room last night and hasn't been seen since she's known her. friends can get everywhere i can't find her what's skyler's name niece and the two start to panic they start contacting friends and family to alert them about what's happening immediately trying to think where skyler could have gone and not much Sometime after all this panic, Sheila called again and this time admitted that she and Rachel picked up Skyler at 11 p.m., which we know wasn't the case.

It's not true because we saw the surveillance footage that showed 12:31 a.m. m., they said they were with her for about an hour and then they dropped her off a little further down the street an hour later, I said where did you go, where is Skyler and she said that. Skylar insisted on being dropped off at the end of the street so we wouldn't hear her sneaking in and then right after that, Sheila and her mom ended up coming to the niece's house to help look for Skyler right away. Sheila Tara and Mary went. on one side of the street knocking on doors while Dave and the officer took the other side and asking everyone in the neighborhood if they had seen anything if they had heard anything maybe in the middle of the night if they had any security cameras installed or inside that possibly might have caught something and of course at this point Dave and Mary and the police haven't seen the surveillance footage of Skyler leaving at 12:31, which doesn't make sense with Sheila's story, but suddenly Mary He remembered that the apartment complex had just installed new cameras in the building and they had to have been working and of course in so many true crime cases we see that the cameras just don't work like most of the time which worries me and it's very scary as a human being on this planet, but fortunately these cameras were new, they were just installed and they were working, so they went to the owner and he took them to his office immediately and they started looking at the surveillance footage, they saw the footage of Skyler crossing the parking lot and getting into a vehicle. and at this point they have no idea who this vehicle belongs to.

The footage is so grainy that they can't make out who is in it and they thought the car was actually an SUV, so of course as soon as the police see this surveillance footage, they think. Skyler is a fugitive, she is not happy with her house that she left on purpose and is probably somewhere and her disappearance at this time does not qualify for an Amber Alert at this time, the following four criteria must be met before. an amber alert could be issued a child must have believed he or she was abducted the child is under 18 years of age the child may be in danger of death or serious injury and there is sufficient information to indicate that the amber alert would also be useful when everything This out There were still some around the hole who waited 48 hours to file a missing person report, which in most places is no longer something that is not true, so Dave and Mary were doing their best to convince the police that you know Skyler wouldn't do it. just run away and not come back like yeah, she was running away but she loved her life, she was so close to her parents, she was a happy girl, you know, this wasn't in her character to just run away and stay away, but of course the police .

He refused to listen to them, really the first impression was that it might be a runaway, there are kids that run away all the time, so Mary and Dave really felt they had to take matters into their own hands, so they printed flyers with his photo , her description and what she was last seen wearing and put them all over the county wherever they could is the most helpless feeling in the world, it really is, I

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, everything you hold dear in the world is gone and you have no idea where to look for it and it's a feeling of helplessness, it's a horrible feeling of helplessness and rachel and sheila were devastated by skyler's death, they were very, very worried, sheila according to mary and dave seemed to be the most worried, they said they would call them often just to ask them for updates on the investigation and over and over again she said I wish I had some information I wish I knew something I wish I could help so she was very cooperative she asked to volunteer to find and hand out flyers basically she said anything she could do she was willing to do Just let her know so Mary and Dave would feel like wow, Skyler has a really good friend in Sheila, she cares about her a lot.

Skylar had good friends in general, I mean they are feeling the love because a lot of people were devastated for Skyler. being missing she couldn't believe she would ever run away she knew she hadn't run away she knew something had to be wrong one day, just a few days after Skyler disappeared for the first time, Sheila actually went up to Skyler's room and sat on Your bed. and I was just sobbing, Mary came in and they had a nice moment together, they hugged each other and were trying to support each other through all of this, so luckily on June 9, 2012 the authorities started taking things a little more seriously.

The fact that Skyler is still not there and after doing more research into her background they realize that this really isn't like her, so luckily the West Virginia State Police and the FBI joined the search and agent FBI Morgan Spurlock and Star City Police Officer Jessica Colbank. I interviewed Sheila a few days after Skyler was first reported missing. Now what's really interesting is that as soon as the researcher did his first interview with Sheila, he instantly sensed that something was wrong. His first reading of Sheila was that she was narcissistic, not only that he also described her as misguided, on the other hand, Rachel had gone on a boating trip with her mother on July 6, the day Skyler had disappeared, her mother was in trip and her mom's friend was on the trip and they both noticed a really gnarly cut. on her ankle and he thought it was a little strange and the next day, the seventh, Rachel had to go to church camp, so they had to interview her on the phone and when they talked to her they said she was very nonchalant. a little relaxed saying you know, I don't really know where Skyler is, but she didn't seem as scared as Sheila and also just saying you know Sheila knows more than me, talk to Sheila, I really don't know.

For the most part, she was a little brief about it, but she agreed to come for an in-person interview, which is obviously crucial, you know, as soon as she got back from church camp, but when Rachel got home from church camp church, not only do you go in right away, which you would think this would be a high priority for you, you know your friend is missing, you would probably be very worried and want to help in any way you could, but the investigators actually had to locate her for Esa The interview wasn't easy and as soon as they brought her in, she said pretty much the same thing she said on the phone, almost word for word at some points, and it started to seem really scripted because Sheila's story and Rachel's story were exactly the same, So of course the investigators examined everything they could on social media computers, including Skyler's diary, to see if there were any clues and the last entry Skyler had made in her diary was actually from a year ago. before her disappearance and in Si she talked a lot about Sheila, she talked about how Sheila could get away with anything and that Sheila got all the attention from the boys and Skylar also seemed to be very fascinated with Sheila.

She wrote in detail about Sheila's sex life. It looked something like this. I'm intrigued and almost live vicariously through her and again, this is Sheila's sex life that she's writing about in her diary and she's writing a lot about it, very detailed, and it even included information about Sheila dating women too in an entry in the diary even talked about a time when the girls were having a sleepover at Rachel's house and had broken into their mother's liquor cabinet, a pretty common thing to do and Skyler wrote in his diary all about this and also about how once they started drinking that Sheila. and rachel started dating and in this entry skyler talks about how they locked her in the bathroom with the girls while they were kissing and stuff and she said that she had nothing against them being bisexual, she was very supportive of the lgbtq community, but I felt uncomfortable being in the room with them while they were hooking up, which is very understandable.

I feel like it's weird being in a room with someone hooking up when you're chilling there and then two weeks later Skyler made that tweet I read earlier that said she was going to tell the whole school everything I have about everyone which is a lot of hashtag if I could get my way, so investigators continued searching Skyler's social media, especially Twitter, for more clues and saw that after her. Wendy's turn on July 5th, she tweeted twice, one saying that if you do this is why I will never fully trust you and another saying that all I do is wait, so Skyler missed the summer between her second and third year and, of course, in a situation. like this one where no one knows what really happened and you're in a high school environment rumors are going to spread like crazy and they did people started speculating you know she ran away maybe she ran away even with a boyfriend maybe she was kidnapped by an online predator or involved in human trafficking, one of the rumors was that she robbed a bank and therefore was on the run and honestly the bank has some merit because there was a bank in Blacksville that was robbed approx. a week before Skyler. disappeared and again about 10 days later, the younger brother of one of the suspects had dated Sheila, so they thought there was some kind of connection and that he was also a person of interest in the Skyler case, but Dave and Mary they knew that Skylar definitely didn't run away.

For them, they felt there were only two possibilities: either she was gone and Mary had the feeling from the beginning that Skyler was no longer with them. Dave definitely held out hope for much longer, but if that wasn't the case, they said The only other possibility they considered was her being kidnapped and held by someone so they knew she wouldn't just run away, that she wouldn't be living a new life. life that wasn't even in the realm of possibility for them. Only Skyler left a bunch of important items that if you were really on the run you probably would have taken them.

She had left her toothbrush, her hair straightener, her contact lenses, her cell phone charger, she even left her security blanket, which was her old nightgown. from her mother that she called Goody and that thing meant absolutely everything to her, so there was no way she would have left without her and from all of Skylar's friends, she had a lot of friends and people were really upset that Skyler was gone. had gone, many kids in high school were experiencing depression. anxiety, fear of what was going on, wondering where he was going to start school without her, that was probably one of the hardest days of the whole thing, like Skylar was a go-to person and she was just gone, but It seemed like Sheila was one of the People, if not the person who is having the hardest time, she posted on Facebook.

Skyler returns. Seriously, I can't deal with school without you. I miss you a lot. Skylar's father, Dave, actually wrote back and told her that she will be back soon, honey, I love you and Sheila. He said I love you too and after a while it started to seem a little strange and not only were rumors spreading at school that Rachel and Sheila had something to do with Skyler's disappearance, there was also a rumor spreading that Skylar had overdose and that maybe Rachel and Sheila had hidden his body because they were afraid that maybe they would think it was their fault, something like that was starting to brew and it wasn't just at school where these rumors were spreading, but they were also spreading. were spreading online, this case received a lot of attention. attention online there are a lot of people who are interested in this case, understandably because it's wild, but even back then, when she was just missing, people were speculating, you know, maybe she was kidnapped, maybe she was introduced to human trafficking , something like that, but like I said, police.

They were definitely starting to have suspicions about Sheila and Rachel. On September 3rd, orders were issued to confiscate all of Sheila and Rachel's electronic devices and communications. The police began to really feelsure that they were on the right path and that sheila and rachel knew something maybe there really was some kind of accident, they didn't want to get in trouble or they were covering for Skylar somehow, they just had a feeling that they knew something and somehow They realized this a little with Dave and Mary, but I advised them not to tell Rachel and Sheila. Obviously don't compromise the case.

This is not a sure thing. This is simply what we are thinking, we are feeling it. Then on October 2, 2012, Sheila posted a photo of her and skyler on the team skyler facebook page that was created and she said skyler, I'm sorry I haven't posted in a while, school has been taking up all my time. time, Rachel and I miss you so much, especially during lunch, we sat at lunch. alone at the table come back so we don't seem lonely anymore hahaha school is very difficult without you actually everything is difficult without you I seriously think about you 24/7 and I miss talking to you on the phone day in and day out. night, I know you would I don't like some of the things that have been said lately and I'm pretty sure it mainly refers to the things that are said about her and Rachel.

At this point, Sheila and Rachel were definitely starting to feel the heat and the number of people who thought they had done something started to increase over time. Eventually, things on Twitter got pretty tense. Two anonymous Twitter accounts were created and they both started following Rachel and Sheila and started harassing them and posting these really cryptic messages the first time. one said luke 12 2 nothing is covered up that will not be revealed or hidden that will not be known be little liars together hashtag we promise to never leave you cold what are you going to do what are you going to do when they come for you and Sheila actually responded and said no one on this earth can handle me and Rachel, if you think you can you're wrong so I'm not sure why it was necessary.

It took them a long time to realize this, but when they started checking the security footage again, the police realized that Sheila had never picked up Skylar at 11 pm, so they tried to get security footage from other places Sheila He said they had passed by that time when they had picked her up and once they saw footage of a convenience store where they were, they realized that the car that had picked Skylar up at 12:30 was actually Sheila's Toyota Camry. , so of course, now that they know Sheila and Rachel were lying, they couldn't. I don't understand why, so they created a persona online and posed as someone who just went to high school so they could keep up with what girls were posting and he read thousands of posts on Facebook and Twitter having to constantly search.

Internet to decode, you know the hashtags they were using, the shorthand they were using and he said it wasn't long before he became incredibly suspicious of Sheila. She was tweeting all this stuff about getting drunk, skipping school, partying. tons of tweets about it, but then she randomly had one on there like I miss you Skylar, please come home, yet they kept bringing Sheila and Rachel, kept asking them questions, you know, trying to really read them, but her story never changed. They were very in sync about what they said was happening that night and they noticed that the two girls were very different as Rachel seemed very nervous, very reserved, you know, while they were interviewing her, but Sheila was very cheerful, very optimistic, very confident and confident.

According to the researchers, it seemed as if he was flirting with some of them. At one point, Sheila seemed to want to stay as close to the investigation as possible. She always asked them to keep her updated on any new information, constantly saying how she wished she knew more information, however Rachel took the opposite approach, she really just stayed away from the whole thing and seemed nervous about it, she also kept her distance from mary and dave, which was very different from the approach that sheila was taking, she was constantly talking to mary and dave was constantly using them as support, you know they were supporting her, she was supporting them.

She worried us more about how her friends, mainly her friend, how they were going to get along, they were so devastated and you know, we're trying to figure out how. Can we help them overcome that? And as they said, she was always like part of the family because she had been friends with Scotland for years, so in the winter of 2012 the police began to get a little closer to the truth using other security camera footage from various locations. . They were able to piece together the fact that the girls had driven to Blacksville the night Skyler disappeared, which Rachel and Sheila had originally denied, but their phone records showed that the girls were texting Skylar when they claimed she was with them, which means nothing. sense and at this point the police are also toying with the idea that maybe the night Sky went missing the girls were doing some kind of drug, maybe Skyler really overdosed and Rachel and Sheila just left her somewhere and this started to create a It made a lot of sense because every time they interviewed Rachel she seemed very, very nervous, like she didn't want to get in trouble and, like I said, they really stuck to their same stories, you know, they were both in the same situation. page about what happened that night until an interview where Rachel told them something completely different, she claimed that Skyler had run away into the woods that night, she said that she and Sheila tried to run after her, they tried to find her, but she was gone , so obviously this is a big change from their original story, so they immediately call Sheila and see if she has the same story and of course now that she does, it's very obvious that the two of them are communicating and planning what they are going to tell him.

The police, so in mid-December they decided they had to give these two girls a polygraph test and see if they could get something out of it. Now Sheila failed the polygraph test, she was definitely being deceptive, so of course. It was time for Rachel to take her exam and on the way her father takes her there and they go to see his lawyers because she will meet him before the polygraph and on the way she jumps out of the car and runs to Sheila's house to get help from Tara Sheila's mom Now apparently Sheila's mom had really been trying to slow down the investigation, she got into a fight with one of the investigators, Jessica, the one I had mentioned, they actually took Jessica off the case because she called Tara. a tool so it's all starting to make a picture here they're really starting to put the pieces together of what could have happened and they're definitely thinking at this point something happened the girls don't want to admit it there was an overdose drank too much you know that something happened and it was an accident and the girls are covering it up on December 16, 2012 mary wrote a very long message on facebook about skyler's disappearance and in the post she talked about how rachel and sheila had lied and she also implied in the message that Skyler was most likely dead, it was clear how they were starting to feel like they had definitely turned on Rachel and Sheila at this point and felt like they had to get involved and once this happened, imagine how many rumors and stuff things.

She's going to be mad because a mom made a huge post like this, people were really starting to turn on Rachel and Sheila, so this was taking a major mental toll on Rachel, not so much on Sheila, she just didn't seem to care much, but Rachel. She really was struggling mentally from all this pressure and scrutiny. Rachel's parents were really worried about her daughter's mental health. They wanted her to distance herself as much as she could from Sheila. They felt like she was a terrible influence on her and was making her worse. They got stressed out giving her a lot of anxiety and they didn't like Tara Sheila's mom either, they just felt like she was bad news too and this is really interesting, but Rachel's parents, even though they were divorced, ended up moving back in together for the Good for Rachel.

Because Rachel's father lived too close to Sheila, that's how worried they were, they were willing to move back in together even though they were divorced, that just tells you how seriously they are starting to view their daughter's decline. She is getting stressed because she is pregnant. anxiety and i think in their minds they are probably starting to realize that something went wrong with skyler, that she must know more, that she was acting out and that she got into more family altercations at home, but what was really strange is When her parents made that decision to move back in together, they didn't tell Rachel that they were going to do it, which is pretty shocking when your parents have been divorced for a while and your dad suddenly moves back into the house, I mean, that's stressful in itself, Rachel just got here.

One day she came home and found out that her father lived there now, so that really upset her so much that, in fact, as soon as she realized that he lived in the house, she started running around the neighborhood screaming and crying, her parents chased her. around the neighborhood they finally took her inside, put her in her room and locked her there. Her mom called the police and you can actually hear Rachel in the background of the call screaming. Her dad had to hold her down because she was going crazy. he came out and she started threatening suicide.

I have a problem with a 16-year-old daughter of mine and I can no longer control her. She is shooting nuts. She is screaming. She is running around the neighborhood. Give me the phone. She says: Okay, this is over. she joined a container and Rachel ended up being taken to Chestnut Ridge, which is a psychiatric facility in Morgantown, West Virginia, and Sheila tried to go see Rachel several times. She wanted to talk to her, but her staff had been ordered not to leave her lying down. she never got to talk to her during this time and who knows what they wanted to talk about.

Rachel was released five days later and as soon as she was released her parents took her directly to her attorney's office and there she finally met with the officers and they took her polygraph test and after seeing Rachel's behavior, after all this , how exhausted she was, the police felt like they were going to get the truth out of her, they felt like the guilt had broken her, they were going to find out that you know, Skyler had overdosed and they realized, something like that was happening, so they started to interview her thinking this is going to go on for a while and it's going to be hard to get the full story out of her, but just a few questions from Rachel surprised everyone by saying We stabbed her, that's right, Rachel and Sheila stabbed Skyler's niece to death.

She just looked at us and said we stabbed her and as you can imagine the investigator's jaw dropped, this wasn't even something they were considering, they were thinking it was a cover-up. by an accident and now they're dealing with a murder and then she starts telling them everything she told them that skyler and sheila usually spent their spring break together and that their sophomore year they spent a week in myrtle beach, but according to rachel in this On the trip, the girls had fought all the time and when she got back, Sheila complained to Rachel about how mean Skyler was, how much she didn't like him anymore and that she had to leave, and what's really interesting is that at one point there were some teachers and classmates who overheard rachel and sheila talking about how to dispose of a dead body, however a few weeks before this a dead body was found near their school so the teachers assumed they were talking about it, but of course, other kids at school who had heard this idea that they were talking about killing Skylar and it turns out that some of those kids even told Skylar what they heard, but she dismissed it, she thought that You know, Rachel and Sheila would never do anything to hurt me and she continued hanging out with all of them that last spring semester before summer, but obviously as summer came, Skyler was starting to pick up on the attitude that Rachel and Sheila had towards her, as I said on June 4th and 5th, she made some tweets, some of which I have already read about her fight with Sheila and Rachel, like sick of being at home.

Thank you. My friends also love hanging out with you. If you do this, that's why I can never completely trust you. the fourth and fifth didn't tweet at all, which was quite unusual for her, like I said, she was the most active on her Twitter. When they looked at the messages, they saw that on July 5, Rachel and Sheila had texted Skyler asking her to sneak out. I went out with them that night and at first Skyler wasn't so sure, it actually took her a little while to agree to join them, so it turns out that Sheila was the one driving the Toyota Camry that picked her up that night and Rachel was sitting there.

In the passenger seat, they pick up Skyler around 12:30, she gets in the back of the car and of course the girls didn't realize there was a videosurveillance, so they didn't think about it very well, but they drove towards Blacksville and magnolia county, right on the Pennsylvania border, which is 25 minutes from star city, their plan originally was to take route 19 to route 7 to get there to blacksville, but sheila ended up changing her course when she saw a state police car parked at an intersection, but eventually they got to blacksville, crossed into pennsylvania and then sheila drove them down this dark, winding road to the middle of nowhere and i guess that this is a place where girls would drive a lot, it was a little out of the way and they would come.

We smoked weed with Skylar here, so this was nothing unusual for Skyler, according to Rachel, they talked for a few minutes in the car and then went outside and when they got to their usual smoking spot, Skyler realized she had left her lighter there. . the car so she turned towards the car to get it and started walking in that direction when suddenly sheila and rachel counted one two three and on three both girls took out kitchen knives that they had taken from their parents' house and started stabbing to skylar. Skylar started screaming, of course, completely shocked, but realizing what was happening immediately and that she had been stabbed in the knee, she tried to run but couldn't, according to Rachel, she fell back and stopped stabbing her and Sheila continued. go ahead and this is absolutely sick, one of the most disturbing things I've ever heard in my life, but they let her slowly bleed out in front of them, they literally stood back and watched her slowly die and according to Rachel, all Skylar could say before of dying was why.

It's what we'd all like to know They waited until Skylar died and it went completely silent It turns out that Rachel and Sheila had stabbed Skylar over 50 times and Rachel talked about how much they had premeditated this, they had packed all the equipment they would need in his car, including paper towels, rags, bleach, clean clothes, even a shovel, and they had all of this in the trunk of his car, so his next step was to take that shovel and try to dig a hole so he could bury it. there, but when they started digging they realized that the ground was too hard and rocky and they couldn't make a hole, so they dragged her body near this tree and just covered her with dirt, debris, branches and random things that They found.

And this is a bit of a strange move, but after that they just turned off Skyler's cell phone and left it next to her body. After this they washed in the creek and then walked back to their car where they had a change of clothes. clean clothes, got into the car as if everything was normal and drove home on the way home. They threw away all the rags, all the evidence they had and returned to their homes around 6 am. You guys aren't even going to believe this, but that morning, Sheila hops on her Twitter and says, "Always stay calm, so of course after Rachel just tells you." All this, the officers are completely surprised, as I said from the beginning, they knew that there was probably a possibility that the girls were involved, that they knew something, that they were covering something up, that something like this was happening, but they didn't consider it.

They had planned a murder and killed her in such a violent way, so of course they asked her why that's a question we all want to know. Skylar was even asking why, why, why did they do this and this is unbelievable, but they literally said that. They did it because they didn't like her, she didn't give us any specific details other than they just didn't like her and then when I asked her what do you mean you didn't like her, she clarified that she said, oh, nothing. They just didn't like her, they said they didn't want to be friends with her anymore and this was the only way to get rid of her.

Rachel claimed it was as simple as that, so of course the police don't even know where. To start off right, like they don't even have a body, so the first thing they ask is if they remember where they put her body. Can you take us there? Rachel agreed, so they went to where she thought they were. They dumped the body, but the area was completely covered in snow and Rachel couldn't remember exactly where they put the body, so they had to wait until everything melted, so on January 4, 2013 the police obtained a warrant to confiscate all the knives inside.

Sheila's house but not only that they looked in her car and found blood in her trunk and while all this was happening Sheila didn't know that Rachel had confessed but she was already starting to realize just by the way they were acting and the evidence they were She was a pretty smart girl, you could say, and she realized pretty quickly that her ship was sinking, but they wanted to get more out of Sheila while she was still at the stage of lying to the police, so she had Rachel use a recording device, a listening device and hang out with sheila and see what she could get out of her, however, rachel got really nervous and they ended up not talking about skyler at all, although they did take a selfie together, so that's it great now at At this point, Mary and Dave know that the police are following the girls, but they don't know about Rachel's latest events, but they're still holding out hope that maybe there's a chance that Skyler is out there.

Her whole family is so heartbroken. They are putting up flyers everywhere they can begging people to give them leaves in the hopes that maybe Skyler would come home, but just after the snow melted in the area, the police were able to search that wooded area of ​​the that Rachel had told them about, of course, they did tests to make I'm sure this was really Schuyler, but this was in fact Skyler's body. Her friends left her in the dust when we first found out, she wasn't even allowed to let us know, so yeah, it was kind of uh.

We even talked about it, yes, and it was something we knew, but do we believe it? Yes, it was a yo-yo, so for the rest of the winter and spring the police had Rachel and Sheila homeschooled so they never saw each other. another on February 10, 2013, skyler's birthday rachel made a happy birthday post on twitter for skyler and then tweeted hate the feed on the night of march 13 they announced to the public in a press release that the body had been found in Pennsylvania and the public was just devastated because people were really involved in this case, people were really hoping that she would be found, that there would be a better outcome, especially the school kids, like the high school kids, who found out, They were so upset that they had to do it.

You know, bring counselors and make sure everyone is okay because it's hard when one of your classmates dies, especially in such a brutal way, and when other classmates are suspected of being involved, it definitely makes everything more chaotic. , so now it was official Skyler. She was not missing, she was murdered, however, remember that this time the girls are still technically under investigation, although this confession has been presented, they have to confirm everything, so even though many people in the community already suspected that Rachel and Skyler had something. To do with her death, Sheila was still trying to publicly maintain her innocence on her birthday.

She also messaged Skylar and told him to relax, Skyler, you will always be my best friend. I miss you more than you can imagine. She also tweeted the worst. The day of my life and Rachel was still doing this too even though she knows that she just confessed to the police that she stabbed Skylar. She still had the nerve to write. She rests in peace. Baby, I love Missy more than anything. May you finally have justice. Then, on April 1, 2013, a month before she was arrested, Sheila appeared to confess to her crime via Twitter at 1:37 a.m. on April 1st.

She tweeted: "We really went to three. Are you kidding me? The fact that they are so proud." of this like it's something cool, we actually did three, like it's like an inside joke or something, I just can't even understand Sheila's mental state, especially both of them for making these posts to tweet about your friend that you killed. In this loving way, saying you miss her, but also confessing and writing these subtweets about her death is so wild to me. The next afternoon, she tweeted again saying that they say you remember the past better than it actually was, so after they did this. from an undercover investigation with rachel, you know she obviously has to turn herself in and she finally accepted from the beginning that she would, so she turned herself in on May 1, 2013 and pleaded guilty to second degree murder and was transferred from juvenile status to adult and officially pleaded guilty to second degree murder for unlawfully, feloniously, intentionally and maliciously causing the death of Skyler's niece by stabbing her and causing fatal injuries and the state of West Virginia recommended a 20 year sentence for her meanwhile they were getting Sheila's results.

He claims the blood there belonged to Skyler's niece, so he officially sinks his ship, and the day Sheila was arrested, she was actually just chilling at the cookie barrel with her mom Tara, the police showed up at the restaurant. He waited for them to come. They went out and as soon as they did, they approached Tara and Sheila in the parking lot and she acted completely surprised, very upset, and they arrested her for first degree murder and she actually told her mom, mom, it's going to be okay, and Tara said no. Now I don't know, Sheila definitely didn't realize the weight of what was really going to happen to her, so yeah, she was accused of murder and they decided they would try her as an adult now that the media had been covering the story the whole time. .

The public was very interested. Dave and Mary were doing all the press they could, but once the arrest happened, the coverage just snowballed, it was non-stop, it was covered like it was even covered on CNN by Anderson Cooper, so when it does. At that level you know there are a lot of eyes on this case, it's such a disturbing story, what's next for these two suspicious teenagers? anderson, sixteen-year-old rachel show had been charged with first-degree murder, but after leading authorities to skyler's body in the woods she reached a plea agreement earlier this month to second-degree murder but Anderson could still receive 40 years in prison now the other girl the other suspect who has not been identified is still charged as a juvenile first-degree murder, although a judge could charge her as an adult we were waiting for that decision there is no news that it is being preparing a plea deal for her now sheila had already been tried as an adult so her name was made public but sheila was being held as a minor at the time so hers wasn't but of course the people in The school knew that once Rachel was arrested, Sheila was probably involved too.

People put the pieces together extremely quickly. Sheila was indicted by a grand jury in West Virginia with one count of kidnapping one count of first degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder and as soon as she was indicted as an adult her name became public and people went crazy in line Sheila is a very hated person online and I must say that Sheila has a really evil vibe towards her, they are like mean girls who go to the next level after approaching Skyler's parents throughout the search pretending she was there for them tweeting about how much she missed Skyler, all of that was clearly false because she only showed emotion when she was in court about going to jail, never for Skyler, never for her family, it was always when jail was talked about and there was talk of her future, Sheila was even smiling at some moments in court and seemed very worried about her.

She had a very manicured appearance and, of course, she pleaded not guilty to all charges. The trial began on October 22, 2013. And Rachel's defense attorney asked that her testimony be suppressed because she had many mental health problems. She asked the judge to postpone the trial and they agreed to that so it was rescheduled for January 28, 2014 and at this point I think after thinking about it a little more and realizing that there was no hope that she walked free for this, she ended up deciding to take a plea deal and in exchange for this, the state of Pennsylvania agreed not to file any additional charges on top of what she already had, so on January 24, 2014, Sheila pleaded guilty to first degree murder, but even his lawyer, who You know, normally defense lawyers at least say publicly that they believe their clients, but he said directly.

I looked at everything and couldn't find any reasonable explanation for her actions. There was really nothing to defend. This was clearly premeditated. two girls had talked about this, they thought about it for a while for months, they had all the supplies ready to go so there was nothing to say, this is a clear period of premeditated murder in the first degree, sothat finally, 18 months after she cold murdered Skyler's niece. Blood Sheila was sentenced to life in prison but with mercy meaning she will be out on parole in 15 years and Sheila never expressed any remorse, she never asked for forgiveness from the family, in fact she seemed more distracted in court by the appearance she was wearing . she put makeup on her hair in a certain way, which Rachel, on the other hand, at her trial and sentencing looked very disheveled, very depressed, I mean, clearly, the severity of everything had affected her the following month, Rachel was also sentenced and he received 30 years in prison because it was mainly Sheila who did it, Sheila who started it once they investigated further, it was actually Sheila who led the prosecution but that was very controversial and a lot of people think he should have received longer and that he would also be eligible for parole afterward.

Rachel, on the other hand, served only 10 years and apologized to the family in court. I'll play it right now. Very sorry. I don't know if there is an appropriate way to present this apology because there aren't even words to describe the situation. Guilt and remorse I feel every day for what I did. The person who did that was not the real me. I'm not the person. I am not what I am made of. I don't believe in what I believe. I don't think I've ever thought about this. would really happen I got scared and got stuck in something I didn't want to do I never realized the severity of my actions and how many people I have hurt I hurt my niece's family and those who love Skyler I hurt my parents and I was ashamed my family I hurt my extended family and all my friends who loved me I hurt my teachers and those who believed in me I hurt my church family my community and those who trusted me and I hurt my lord and savior Jesus Christ may God bring eternity Peace to Schuyler and his niece's entire family again.

I am so sorry and I pray every day for everyone involved and I pray every day for forgiveness. His family also issued a public apology through his attorney, but Dave and Mary just don't particularly accept it. From Rachel, the racial chef also murdered my daughter in cold blood. Scotland wouldn't be where she was if it wasn't for Rachel Soph. You said it yourself, your honor, this is first degree murder. She should not give him any indulgence and he can accept the apology from her. and everything else stays with them because that is what they are worth to me and my wife.

She has done nothing but make our lives hell since day one. In the end she cooperated because she knew he was getting close to her. Yes. She would be caught that's the only reason she feels remorse. I completely sympathize with them. I can see how it would be almost impossible to forgive someone who took your only child from you in that way, in such a brutal way, for the fact that they have to live with him. Thinking about her bleeding to death alone in the woods is simply devastating. We did a story a few days later trying to help and see if anyone knew where Skyler was.

I'll direct them both, but Dave ended the story by pleading for them to come home. Honey, when you think back and those were the first words, at least the community found out about your missing daughter. What did you want? What do you think about many tears? I wish it were that. She had just run away and she did. get back to it guys, I don't know if he could ever forgive these girls either and it seems like Mary, I mean Dave is extremely angry, he's so hurt on another level and so is Mary, but Mary seems to have done it. a little more understanding and a little more sympathy towards the girls, she thinks they have a mental illness and that's why they did this, but still you know she says their apologies mean nothing, she can't forgive them and I understand that, I want I mean, I know they're mentally ill, you have to be to do something like that, but even then there has to be some reason, you know, even mentally ill people, if they don't like someone, they stay away from them, they were jealous I think that's a lot, I think about how double you can be and how sick and forward you can be to reach out to grieving parents who are crying their eyes out and hug them and tell them everything will be okay and on my mind.

My opinion again shows the depth of his mental illness. You know, they were trying so hard to cover it up and they did a good job. They really did to this day. They are both incarcerated in the lake at the Mason County Correctional Facility, West Virginia, now of course the thought of them being released on parole is really upsetting and very upsetting to Dave and Mary, and Dave promises that he won't let that happen. happens, it will make sure they stay in jail and there is a positive. The result that you could say of this whole situation is Schuyler's law and this law actually changed West Virginia's criteria for issuing an Amber Alert and basically now an immediate Amber Alert will be issued to the public even if the child is not suspected. be Dave and Mary, kidnapped niece, you still know her life, how can her life be happy again?

They're missing a big part of them and that's what makes this so much harder is that you know Skyler was their only child so now it's just the two of them and luckily they're still together, they have each other. each other and they seem to have a very good supportive relationship, which is wonderful to see, but this has broken their hearts in a way that can never be repaired. They did the area where Skyler's body was. It was found in a very nice memorial area with a bench with some stones, they put flowers there and decorated them for the holidays and it's just a nice place for them to come and reflect and for some of Skyler's friends who saw this very dangerous relationship happening. to come and sit and just be with her, you know, in spirit and I think it's really cool that they turned a place where something so horrible happened into a really beautiful place that they can now heal normally.

I ask you what you think at the end of the video what your opinions are on the case, but I know that all of you are going to feel the same as I do, that Skyler deserved much better and then I'm happy that justice was done, you know that Rachel finally it got to that point. blame when she came forward and told the truth because who knows if we would know what happened to this day if they kept it a secret maybe there wouldn't have been enough evidence, I mean I don't know but I think both girls absolutely need stay behind bars, so yeah, it's a really crazy case.

I feel tired after talking about this honestly, two teenagers being so evil and so calculated is honestly terrifying, but let me know what you think, of course, in the comments. next I want to hear your opinion on this case, if you enjoyed it be sure to give it a thumbs up and I'll be sure to do a few more cases that are similar, a few more solved cases, but that's it for me today guys I hope you like it do. All the guys are staying safe in this crazy world and I'll see you guys in my next video.